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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Anja KorogSec

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WEB: http://newedgemagazine.com/
COVER PHOTO Anja Korogec
LAYOUT DESIGN Anja Korosec

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NEW YEAR,
NEW BEGINNING,

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NEW THINGS, NEW EDGE.

Welcome to the second issue
of New Edge magazine. This
is a free magazine that pro-
motes, and draws attention to,
all the good things in our en-
vironment.

All beginnings are difficult
and success is not self-evi-
dent or guaranteed, but with
the right vision and working
with the right people, it is al-
ways possible to achieve it.
And because it is necessary to
continue the work we started
and insist on our chosen path,
here is the new issue of the
New Edge magazine, which
maintains our primary edi-
torial philosophy. We added
the English translation of its
contents, and with minor cos-
metic adjustments, the new
issue of the magazine is here
to please you again.

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It seems to me that it is impor-
tant to selflessly promote the
good things around us and
in our life. Good things over
time tend to show and prove
themselves as_ successful,
rather than to only gain the
quick and instant 15 minutes
of fame. ‘Per aspera ad astra",
as they say, each path is hard,
but it leads us to a beautiful
view of the stars.

New Edge Magazine symbol-
izes people with remarkable
interests and innovative view
of the world. In the social con-
text, the magazine points out
that things have more sides
than we see at first glance,
and that it is often necessary
to look at life from another
perspective.

Thank you for staying with us.
= Anja Korosec

CONTENT

CONTENTS WINTER 2015

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ROMISING

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Photography-
Matej Poéervi

Fashion -
Tina Verbi

VISION
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Column - Miha Kur
Poetry - Pieces |
Music - Kormora
Cartoon - Ciperc¢
Animation - Visoska Kro!

CULTURE

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PROMISING

Tell me something about yourself?

I am Matej, I come from Jurka vas. In my
spare time I skate, play music and I photo-
graph.

Why photography?

I started taking pictures due to my inju-
ry, which lasted one year, and because of
it I couldn't skate. Injury wasn't caused by
skateboarding and in my ‘Medical Journal’
it's written: “he fell on the dance floor” :-).
Because of this I had to undertake some
new things, and so I started to make pho-
tos of skateboarding and nature, therefore
of the environment that surrounds me and
affects me.

Motifs?

The motifs from nature, because I’m sur-
rounded by it and it’s what's closest to me,
and as well because I have not yet managed
to get used to photograph people, because
it seems to me that you have to be a little in-
trusive to do that. I feel that I haven't yet ac-
quired the nerve for this, since I don't even
live in such an environment, namely in the
city, where it is more natural to do that, that
is to take pictures of people and city events.
I also photograph skateboarding, which is
an interesting combination of opposites ,
skateboarding and nature, maybe I should
try and combine them.

How did it all begin?

Skateboarding began in elementary school,
while my habit for photography began due
to my idle time after injury. I wanted to buy
something and because I always followed
skateboarding magazines and photograph-
ic layouts in them, since with colleagues we
were filming skate films, I've gotten used to
how the scene is laid out and sequenced, so
I started with that. And then I quickly be-
came quite good at it and I liked it, and so
now I'm doing both.

What kind of camera do you use?

I have a digital and an analog camera.
Analog one is for special occasions and
sometimes I have a film in it for almost a
year before I get it developed, so that in
the meantime I've already forgotten what I

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photographed and when I finally see devel-
oped images, they surprise me.

What would you like to do if you had all the
opportunities open for you?

I would like to work in the skateboard in-
dustry. I'd like to manage skateboarding
team, and I was also thinking to have my
own. ‘brand’ or skate shop, but one that fo-
cuses on ‘design’, that therefore adds some-
thing more and is not an ordinary skate
shop with products from selected brands. It
seems to me that there is a need for some-
thing like this in Slovenia, as it is a small
market that lacks recognition.

In the field of photography, I would like to
experiment and try to expand to other pho-
tographic areas. But skateboarding will al-
ways affect my way of thinking, since even
when you go abroad, you'll always look
more closely at the stairs in front of some
museum than at museum itself, and think
about how you could ‘drive over’ these
steps. I have more than 10 years of skate ex-
perience and I can't imagine not to do this
anymore.

I do a lot of things, I like to draw, and I'm
currently working on a project of painting
skateboards. I’m also interested in music
and I play in a band “Kormorana’”. I'm get-
ting offers from magazines, but otherwise I
work in marketing, where I’m responsible
for marketing in tourism. I also write poet-
ry. In find inspiration, for example, in love
and ordinary everyday events. I am writing
songs for the band Kormorana, and I also
sing.

What differentiates you from others?

.. I'm doing what makes me happy, and I
give a part of myself into the product, I
think this is the biggest difference you can
make as a man. I always try not to do some-
thing that someone else does, but some-
thing that makes me happy, and I look at
role models with a thought: “let them do
it their way, but I will do it my way”. If you
take over some element from others, you
must do it even better than them, you must
add “a touch" of your own. =—_

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How did you get involved with music?

Since I was a kid I was always accompanied by
music, not only classical but also other forms of
music. My mother is engaged in education and
she is a school class teacher, along with being
engaged as a choirmaster and leading a pair of
choirs, so that we have simply, since our young
age, been living in the spirit of music that always
accompanied us.

I started to go to the music school with 6 years of
age, which was still in those times that you first
have to learn block flute for a year, and then you
could opt for one instrument, and I opted for the
piano. My mother played the piano and at home
we had an upright piano and so I always thought
it was a beautiful instrument. So I started with
playing piano in music school in Velenje, then
continued with it in musical high school. When
time came for me to go to a musical academy, I
decided to go to Ljubljana, because I liked it as
a city, and it had good energy, good mannered
people, and a good study program. I enlisted in
musical education study, later I added a parallel
piano study, and now I’m just prior to gradua-
tion.

Would you like to go abroad?

Of course, I was just in London to perform the
entrance exam for postgraduate studies, which I
will begin in September at Trinity Conservatory
of Music and Dance.

Your professional development advancing?

My piano playing is develop slowly but with
quality. I started my professional performances
half time through my Music High School, when
I started to perform live in Slovenia from Ljublja-
na, Velenje to Maribor, etc. I perform abroad as
well, and I'm often accompanied by my brother
who plays the violin, and who is also studying in
London. We are very successfully colaborating as
a duo named “Duo Smirnov O&Stir". We perform
concerts in Slovenia and abroad, pretty regularly.
Last one was in the Slovenian Embassy in Lon-
don. I hope we will be as successful in the future
as well.

Each year, I participate at various professional
seminars at home and abroad, in Velenje, Lju-
bljana, Budapest and London.

Music is in my opinion difficult to objectively
evaluate. In my opinion music cannot be ade-
quately evaluated, as is done in various competi-
tions, since each musician has an interpretation
of his own, his own emotions and understand-
ing of music and the song he is playing.

What is your specialty? What differentiates you
from others?

My musicality and capacity to integrate emotions
in my play, and a good interpretation. When you
engage in a creative art, the beginning is always
difficult, at least its technical side, but when you
master this, then comes the moment when you
can start enjoying it and playing with pleasure. I
very much enjoy in music.

Any thought for the conclusion?

Music is the meaning of life, without it we almost
cannot imagine our lives. Music accompanies us
everywhere, even there where we are not even
aware of it. In everyday life we are everywhere
accompanied by the sounds of music, and there-
fore I think it is right for us to think about it, and
to look at things that surround us in life.

Your expectations for the future?

To finish my studies and to be a good teacher,
from pedagogical point of view, and a ‘repetitor'
— who accompanies or ‘plays along’ pupils on
various instruments.

So far I see myself working in London, because
there are a lot of opportunities there, as well as
people who appreciate and respect music and
musicians and have them in high regard.

I do not play only classical music, I'm also fluent
in different musical styles and genres, like var-
iants of pop, jazz and blues. I would like to, for
example, cooperate with Sam Smith, in his live
acoustic performances and variants. =

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FASHION DESIGN

How did you start, how did you become inter-
ested in fashion?

I always found it interesting how clothes can
change you and then you feel better, it could
be enough just to give a piece of cloth on, to
achieve this. And with this piece of cloth you
can highlight your own attributes, you can be
seductive and trendy. I was attracted to fash-
ion because as alittle girl I sew clothes with
my grandmother, but she never let me sew
by myself, and so I sat next to her and I was
watching her as she sewed my tracksuit and
a skirt with the shape of a circle. That I was
always very amused. That’s why I continue in
this direction.

You received some awards for your work?

I received an award at the high school and at
the college for a “full-grown wearable min-
imalism", which I was awarded by now de-
ceased professor Zoran Garevski. I respect all
the professors at our college, and out of re-
spect for them I’m trying to do my best when
I'm creating my products and at each of my

tasks I try to add to it something more.

Even then I wanted to do something withouta
seam. Since I don't understand why it should
be so self-evident that the cloth should have
some sews, since clothes can be done without
stitching as well. I was able to glue Neoprene
nicely and with precision, so that the parts
were nicely merged together. I love to explore
new shapes and sewing patterns, and to dis-
cover new ways of producing clothes.

What is your latest project?

“COLLECTION WITHOUT STITCH" is a sus-
tainable collection, because it eliminates all
intermediate processes of manufacturing
clothes, since the production of ordinary

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PROMISING

piece of clothing demands more than 100 differ-
ent intermediate stages, from tailoring to iron-
ing, the insertion of seams and sew-ins, sewing
buttons and zippers. This collection eliminates
all these processes and basically does not require
any labor force, and is therefore an organic, eco-
logical and sustainable concept of cloth produc-
tion.

How did you get this idea?

I invented this concept myself, I because I've
always wanted to produce garments without
seams. Why, for example, are we, for over 100
years, wearing clothes that are sewn in basically
the same way, as in our footwear? It's allways the
same, but why shouldn't we now do something
different, since we have new technologies and
better materials? It is important to pursue sus-
tainable design, due to environmental problems
around us, as for the production of garments we
are using fossil fuels as the main energy source,
and then by burning of these fuels we accumu-
late CO2 and other greenhouse gases in our en-
vironment. For production of clothing we need
energy, and with this concept of clothing I want-
ed its consumption to be reduced. As designers
we have to pursue sustainability and choose it
over other things, in the first place with our se-
lection of materials, as this is an established way
of how we can make changes and also offers us
guidelines that suggest how something could be
sustainable and useful at the same time. In cloth-
ing and fashion industry there's a whole series
of problematical issues, especially with the ex-
pansion of ‘fast fashion’, which has taken hold
recently. This fashion is offered to a mass popu-
lation for a low price, but at the expense of people
who produce it, and at the expense of environ-
ment, since it only offers the cheapest materials,
which are also the most dangerous for our envi-
ronment.

Non-stich Collection

Fashion needs to ‘slow down’, because we have no
control over it, and since consumer habits have
changed, they buy too much, we produce too
much and then these slowly degradable cloth-
in are deposited on landfills and discarded. To-
day's clothes are poorly manufactured and after
a few washes their quality already significantly
degrades. Such clothing is thrown away because
we have no respect for the product we bought
for 1 euro. Therefore, the durability of clothes is
important. It's clever for us not to follow fashion
trends too closely, otherwise we have to deal with
all of the mentioned problems.

You are preparing New Collection?

In designing this collection, I have started from
the circle, because it seems to me that itis sucha
perfect form, that starting from it presents a chal-
lenge, since it is an infinite, timeless figure and
pattern ... So I laid my patterns into a circle and
out of it I formed folds out of a circle and I creat-
ed and made a lot of prototypes and then chosen
the most convincing ones, the classical ones, but
they are somewhat different. The collection in-
cludes a jacket, a coat with a collar, a skirt, tops
and a little black dress, all starting from the circle.
All designs therefore start from the perfect start-
ing point of the circle.

The silhouette down to the knees, 100% wool
biodegradable, since it can be dismantled and
degraded. I chose colors for autumn and winter
2015 and also for the following seasons, since I
created eternal pieces.

Your slogan?

Less is more. Someone once said, “always put
up one thing of clothes more, but I’m the one
who always gives one of the things away. I very
quickly end up with too much of something, and
although I appreciate art, I became very rational
with regard to unnecessary things. =™

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VISION

RENT A KITCHEN

Idea of renting a kitchen in a big city to havea
chance and make yourself a healthy meal.

“Rent a Kitchen” is a kitchen in a big city where people
have a chance to cook themselves a healthy meal.

We can use it when have an hour of free time in a
big city, but not enough time to go home and cook a
healthy meal according to our tastes and at a price that
is acceptable. It is the kitchen that you can use without
going back home, if you live far away and outside of
the city, and so you can spend your free time to prepare
the same meal as you would prepare at home. Basic
appliances and supplies such as kitchen containers and
utensils and eating ingredients are always available for
use, but under condition that everyone cleans up behind
themselves and enables the others to use the kitchen
too. The kitchen is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The target audience are busy people who love to cook
and to live healthily healthy living, since the fast food
you can buy in cities is usually unhealthy.

“Rent a kitchen" is trying to promote healthy food and to
offer people an opportunity to eat food according to their
tastes. Therefore such a food as they wish themselves,
without inconvenient additives in their food. =m

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VISION

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leave the kitchen the way you wanna use it

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FASHION

PHOTO Anja Korosec & Anze Ermenc
CREATIVE DIRECTOR Anja Korosec & Anze Ermenc
STYLING Anze Ermenc
MODEL Andreja Slavi¢ @ Immortal model manager
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HAIR Anze Ermenc

LOCATION AND SPECIAL THANKS Ina Klansek

TOP Sabina Spilak
SHORTS Matic Veler

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DRESS Nika Batista
TOP Sabina Spilak

FASHION

TOP Nika Batista
SHORTS Ana Jazbec

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TROUSERS Sabina Spilak

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JEWELLERY Deni Pregelj

FASHION

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BAG ACCESSORIES Nika Batista

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ALTERNATIVE

COLUMN / MIHA KURNER

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| MIHA KURNER

http://www. mihiski.com/

My name is Miha.

I like to ski.

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I just tried to blindly type with ten fin-
gers.

The key to success is to every day
try something new. Perhaps ten fin-
ger blind typing doesn’t have much
in common with skiing, but to do it I
still had to engage a part of my brain
that is rarely involved in my everyday
life processes. Namely that part of the
brain that is responsible for trust, that
is based on feeling. We love our ‘com-
fort zone’ and so do I. But sadly, the
only thing that this ‘zone’ is missing, is
excitement. And money. Just kidding,
money has nothing to do with it. So
why do we do things that are foreign
and unfamiliar to us and, at first sight,
seem unsurmountable? Perhaps in or-
der to make progress, perhaps in order
to find meaning in something we are
doing, perhaps simply out of boredom
.. Therefore the reason or “Why?” is
basically almost irrelevant, because
to explain something only in order to
understand it, is a waste of time. The
more important question is “When?".
Therefore the answers “as soon as pos-
sible”, “immediately”, “now”, “often”
and “always”, are the ones that carry
a positive meaning and charge and
break the iron cage of our everyday

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ALTERNATIVE

lives and give our soul the freedom,
which is precisely what it needs.
That's the reason I like skiing and
therefore I always prefer to ‘fall on my
face’ than ‘fall in safe haven’.
Everything initially looks tremen-
dously simple. Skiing in particular,
since you don't need much to under-
stand that the essence of competitive
skiing is to get from point A to point
B in the shortest possible amount of
time. The statement of this sort by it-
self indicates that it will be followed
by a dramatic turnaround and a clas-
sical conclusion: “everything is not as
it seems” — and indeed it is so. It’s not
everything so simple, and the more
closely you look at each element this

sport is composed of, from snow-
flakes up to the complexity of man,
the more you see that sooner or later
you will have to rely on that uncon-
scious part of the brain, on a sense or
on an instinct. Trying to control all
is pointless, at least in the conscious
sense, and although all can somehow
be controlled, a big part of this con-
trol will be unexplainable and will al-
ways originate from there where the
light of reason lits only fleetingly, as
in the depths of the ocean, where the
last shade of the color turns into eter-
nal darkness. And hence originate
the legendary statements of top ath-
letes, exemplified by this one: “That
night was my day!" ==

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ALTERNATIVE

POETRY

PIECES

INA KLANSEK

Lost in Space
found on Earth
lost themselves.
Found in the mirror of your soul,
lost in the body of the second,
found in mind, dear.

Lost in the vastness of thinking,

found in the heat of the heart,
lost in crashed emotions.
Tiny, scattered, disheveled, alienated...

semi ourselves, each other, everything.

Text: Ina KlanSek; Illustration: Ina Klansek

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CULTURE

WHAT'S UP?

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CARTOON

CIPERCOPER

INVIDA internet video agencija d.o.o.

In a short fifteen minute animated film
Cipercoper we go on an adventurous
journey of three small magic heroes.
Witches Kustra and Stumfa the one Mon-
day unanimously agree that they would
rather than be bored in school and fear-

ful of the dentist to embark on ana

venturous search for the lost magic cat.
On paths through space and time come

across a wise Brihta, great connoisse
of magic potions, which according

ancient recipe creates his latest concoc-

tion.

http://www.invida.tv/sl/cipercoper-2/

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MUSIC

KORMORANA

Kormorana is a band that is exploring ‘stoner’,
‘psychedelic’, ‘doom’ and ‘sludge’ musical wa-
ters or genres. In regard to members I cannot
say much, the band is still in the formation
stage, so far we have two guitarists (Mare and
me) and a drummer (Max), we are still waiting
for a bassist, I hope that this week we'll have one
rehersal, and then we'll see.

Check it out here:
https://soundcloud.com/matej-po-ervina/stu-
dio-kormorana-pescena-ura

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ANIMATION

VISOSKA KRONIKA Version 1.0

Toni Mlakar

This animation is simplified story of VisoSka Kronika for children.
VisoSka Kronika is a slovenian historical novel by Ivan Tavéar published
in 1919. VisoSka kronika identify three historical themes; persecution of
witches, the persecution of Protestants and 30-year war. The main theme
of the novel is a sin and penance: a writer chronicles Izidor at the begin-
ning tells us that chronicle written so that the reader will see how he and
his family all his life doing penance for his father’s sins. This belief also
take his son, who after his father's death chronicle continue.

Animation Visoska Kronika Version 1.0 was made for Skofja Loka castle.

SHOP
Katja Koselj Jewellery

Katja Koselj has collaborated with young
artists to create a new image of her jewel-
lery studio. Illustrations were produced by
Isabela KavSek, Helena Bernik was in charge
for a space and Anja Summer for graphics in
a jewellery shop.

http://www.katjakoselj.com/

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CULTURE

FOOD

ZAZAJTRK

http://www.ekoloskakmetijadarja.si/#!zazajtrk/cz4g

The idea was born in Mo&nje in Upper
Carniola, since we have put together a mix out
of the home grown cereals, that we ourselves
are eating and enjoying ‘ForBreakfast’
(‘ZaZajtrk’). The mixture is composed of
spelled flakes, hemp and flax, which have
become the basis for our breakfast, dinner,
and as a meal before a workout or after it.

Why is ‘ZaZajtrk' so good?

Because it contains all the ingredients that
balance your meal and contains all the
essential ingredients that your body needs
for optimum performance. It is particularly
suitable for breakfast, since the mixture
is satiable, but it does not burden the
gastrointestinal tract. ‘ZaZajtrk' contains
the perfect balance between carbohydrates,
protein and omega 3 fatty acids. Hulled hemp
and hemp flour also regulate your appetite,
because they reduce your desire for “bad”
and sweet food.

‘ZaZajtrk' IS NOT SWEET

Suitable for diabetics

Suitable for allergic to gluten from wheat
A rich source of protein and fiber

FREE from nuts or fruit

Rich in dietary fiber.

An ideal base for enjoying it with
The smoothies, milk, fruit juice, yogurt, soy
milk ...

On the website you can order your ‘ZaZajtrk' =

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CULTURE

ACCESSORIES

NATIONAL BOW Tl E SLOVENSKI METULJCEK

http://slovenskimetuljcek.si/
https://www.facebook.com/nationalbowtie?fref=ts

Matic Veler is a young Slovenian designer
of textiles and garments. Innovation, talent
and promising quality of his work can be
seen in the results of his study and numerous
extracurricular activities. During the study he
developed some original fashion accessories for
the project “Slovenian Souvenirs” — butterflies
with patterns of typical Slovenian flowers that
have proven themselves very successful during
exhibitions, but they also sell well.=

CONTACT AND CONTRACT: _
INFO@SLOVENSKIMETULJCEK.SI ENCIJAN

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INVITATION

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